FTR#1271 Interview #10 with Jim DiEugenio about “JFK Revisited”
This broadcast continues our visits with Jim DiEugenio–author of Destiny Betrayed and JFK Revisited–selected by Oliver Stone to write the screenplay for his latest documentary.
Jim begins by relating Oliver Stone’s address to the Cannes Film Festival, following the screening of JFK Revisited.
Noting the evidentiary archives assembled and credentialed by the ARRB, he noted that “conspiracy theory” has become “conspiracy fact.”
Recorded on Veterans’ Day of 2022, we noted Oliver Stone’s own service as a decorated combat infantryman in Vietnam, and recapped how JFK was withdrawing the U.S. from Vietnam when he was killed.
As we transition into analysis of the ballistic and medical/forensic evidence, a telling quote frames the discussion of CE399 (the “Magic Bullet”) and the situation in Parkland Hospital on 11/22/1963:
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Jim DiEugenio; Skyhorse Publishing [HC]; Copyright 2022 by Jim DiEugenio; Introduction Copyright 2022 by Oliver Stone; ISBN 978–1‑5107–7287‑8; p. 225.;
. . . . [Josiah] Thompson gave an important speech at the 2003 Duquesne University JFK Assassination Conference. He revealed that, in a 1993 interview, O.P. Wright’s widow—who also worked at Parkland Hospital—said that more than one nurse had approached her I the twenty-four hours after the assassination because they had found bullets on gurneys. . . .
FTR#1270 Interview #9 with Jim DiEugenio about JFK Revisited
Nothing is more important in the JFK investigation than the role of the media, the element we rely upon for our information. That distillate provides us with our basis for making intelligent, measured decisions.
In our long series of interviews with Mr. DiEugenio about his book Destiny Betrayed, we noted that the media have functioned closely with the intelligence services and other federal agencies to actively cover-up the truth.
The program begins with Jim’s review of the media’s role in the Garrison case.
Next, we synopsize the role of media vis a vis the Warren Report, including: Major networks and MSM print voices (NYT, WaPo) endorse report, despite the fact that the 26 volumes of testimony and exhibits had yet to be released; Warren Commissioner John J. McCloy’s CBS interview where he doesn’t answer Walter Cronkite’s query, nor does he mention that his daughter Ellen heavily liaised with network management on the program; Alec Baldwin’s experience with NBC, who wouldn’t let him book guests critical of the Warren Report and is told that NBC’s stance is to support the official version of the assassination (Tom Brokaw—“No Garrison”); Background on the Sarnoff family’s intelligence connections.
We then synopsize Life Magazine’s role in the cover-up, including: Though not discussed in JFK Revisited, it was Life that purchased Zapruder film and then re-arranged the still frames in its issue supporting Warren Report; Henry Luce’s role as enabler of the Powers That Be (his idol, BTW, was Mussolini); C.D. Jackson’s role with Life—though not discussed in film, he was a lifelong intel/national security player; Life’s publication of the cover photo of “Oswald” holding the rifle and pistol he supposedly used in the killings; Oswald’s wedding ring on different fingers of “Oswald’s” hand.
Next, we highlight key aspects of the rifle allegedly used by Oswald, including: The salient fact that in Texas (at that point in time) anyone could purchase a rifle over the counter without documentation; Why would anyone planning a political assassination purchase a mail-order rifle?; Different barrel lengths of “Oswald’s” rifle in various presentations; different mountings of sling on “Oswald’s” rifle in various presentations; The fact that mail order box wasn’t in Oswald’s name, so he couldn’t have received the weapon; the disparate time frames involved in sending the weapon through the mail.
We conclude with discussion of the rifle and forensics vis a vis its present on 6th floor “sniper’s perch,” including: The remarkably neat placement of the spent cartridges in the “sniper’s nest;” Reporter Tom Alyea’s discussion of how the “sniper’s perch” looked prior to apparent interference.
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